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Private buildings, public land: how Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce Developers argue that eco-tourism helps ‘underfunded’ parks but former Greens leader Bob Brown says the idea of wilderness lodges is an ‘oxymoron’

Rich folk killing that which we love
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Center for Security Policy - Islamophobic junktank Kyle Shideler Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Junk title On a news broadcast suggesting terror threat because of the attack on Iran

TOT sourcewatch.org v Islamophobia ^ Funding According to the Center for American Progress: "In 2009, CSP's annual revenue was nearly $4 million, and Frank Gaffney's annual salary was nearly $300,000 as president of the organization. Over the past decade, the Scaife foundations gave CSP nearly $3 million, the Bradley Foundation more than $800,000, the Becker foundations about $375,000, and the Anchorage and William Rosenwald funds about $437,000, with the Fairbrook Foundation contributing smaller amounts. All told, CSP received about $20 million in revenue between 2002 and 2009." 2!

Center for Security Policy Board of Directors Chairman of the Board • James T. de Graffenreid Chairman & President, HP Associates Directors • Bruce J. Brotman, vice president of strategic plans at National Biometric Security. 13! • M.D.B. Carlisle Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, and former Chief of Staff to Senator Thad Cochran • Terry Elkes Principal & Co-Owner, Apollo Partners, LLC. He manages and co-owns Apollo Partners, LLC, a private equity firm engaged in acquiring media, communications, entertainment, and broadcasting companies. Elkes' experience in media acquisition dates back to his work as president and CEO of Viacom in the 1970s and 1980s. 141 • Thomas Mclnerney - Director of Military Committee 15] • Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. President, Center for Security Policy. He formerly acted as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during the Reagan Administration, following four years of service as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy. 16! • James T. deGraffenreid is a former CSP chairman, and he remains on the board. He was a principal in two major defense-related industries: HP Associates (formerly Phillips Publishing), which is a "key information supplier to the Defense, Aviation, Telecommunication, and Energy Industries"; and First Service Networks (formerly Sure Air Corp). "17 • Lt. Col. Marlin L. Hefti, USMC (Ret.) Vice President, Van Scoyoc Associates • Charles M. Kupperman, the former Vice President of Strategic Integration & Operations, Missile Defense Systems, the Boeing Company • Dominic J. Monetta, President, Resource Alternatives, Inc. • Miles Prentice III is a Partner at Eaton & Van Winkle, LLP • David P. Steinmann (JINSA), managing director of American Securities, L.P. 18), and a trustee for the Anchorage Charitable Fund and president of the William Rosenwald Family Fund. • Allen M. Taylor, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

National Security Advisory Council CSP Board of Advisors has been renamed the National Security Advisory Council (NSAC). Many of the members of the council also held senior positions with the George W. Bush administration, including: • Mark Albrecht, former Executive Secretary of the White House National Space Council • Morris Amitay, former Foreign Service Officer and legislative assistant in the House of Representatives 19] Most of the NSAC memberships overlap with the Committee on the Present Danger, including: • Jon Kyl - Honorary co-chairman • James Woolsey - Honorary co-chairman

Check this guy’s job title and the junktank’s name. Sounds reputable, right? Look at the list of people & donors. The Center for Security Policy was a neocon hub with funding from the Atlas donors/military-industrial sector. And one of its main jobs is spreading nonsense about Muslims since 2000.

In the books and articles I am reading there is a theme - if the negotiations are progressing Israel makes some sort of accusation and abandons negotiations and often attacks.

Israel's war of regional supremacy will not end with Iran If Netanyahu is successful in crushing the Islamic Republic, his violent expansionist vision will turn towards Arab Gulf states next

There is so much bullshit being repeated at the moment. This is one of many. Read the rest below

The Iranians negotiating in Geneva and Oman had just offered to get rid of all their enriched uranium & Trump & Netanyahu responded by bombing them

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Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Only environmental concern ALP cares for is the number of votes it can garner
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The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See Reaper Madness - by Mr.

Heartbreaking
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Israel's killing 22 people a month in Lebanon Israel has carried out nearly 3,000 attacks on a near-weekly basis since its 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah

Rule no 2: Ceasefire only applies to Israel's neighbours. Israel killing 22 per month in Lebanon.
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This is Bruegger. He learned a highly advanced new trick, demonstrating excellent use of both free will and spatulas. 13/10 (TT: maddmaddmad)

ALP with a massive majority still too afraid to lead. Moral cowardice. May as well have elected Dutton and his tribe of grifters.
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Don't try to tell me Australia is not a racist hellhole for FNP

Cape York man’s conviction overturned after court finds magistrate made ‘inappropriate’ remarks Judge finds Queensland magistrate talked over defence lawyer’s questions and did not approach task ‘with a sufficient degree of impartiality’

What I find particularly offensive is that an Indigenous man from a remote Cape York community was in court because of a traffic offence.

While #BlackDeathsInCustody go unpunished, these "judicial" acts against First Nations remain an obscenity.
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Shit brown would be most appropriate

How did our western media cover it?

Pollution from trucks and buses costs Australians $6.2bn in health effects each year, study finds Research describes children exposed to air pollution equivalent to eight cigarettes a day by attending childcare near major roads

But but but I love my diesel engines
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Message from the Editor I gasped in disbelief when I heard our Prime Minster invoke his beloved mother, when blocking the return of family members of ISIS fighters to Australia this week.  He said: “My mother would have said...

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Ben Saul: “Making these most vulnerable women and children the further victims of violence does not make Australia safer or more secure. It demonstrates a lack of compassion, responsibility and obligation to both security and human rights.”
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Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department

The Australian government’s decision to allow the US mining giant Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of Western Australian jarrah forest despite past illegal clearing practices was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year.

In an extraordinary and illegal move, Trump says he's transferring 10 billion dollars from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which he chairs and can therefore use the funds as he wishes. #bullshit #8647now

Paid an arm and a leg to see a specialist? Fee transparency could help The 78% fee increase since 2010 shows that specialists are simply charging what the market will bear.

Excellent column by @lukeslawomirski.bsky.social for @thepointau.bsky.social

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is currently litigating against Coles in the Federal Court over allegations of misleading "Down Down" discounts from 2022-2023. Coles allegedly inflated prices on at least 245 products—like toothpaste, cereal, and baby formula..

#auspol #MVAW #MVAC #BringThemHome

When you hear @albomp.bsky.social expressing his "contempt" for Australian women and children trapped in refugee camps in Syria and watch him refuse to bring them home, keep in mind—

The fine is just a cost of doing business to filthy Alcoa

Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department

The Australia government’s decision to allow Alcoa to continue clearing WA forest was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year.

A document also shows the environment dept had told Alcoa since 2011 its clearing required approval.

3.7 million at most recent count, including 757,000 children.
But it's all good, Little Albo has a new bestie

We should have realized @australianlabor.bsky.social had developed a taste for inflicting acts of violence on women & children even before Gaza, before refusing to bring Australians trapped in Syria home.

I mean—keeping 3M families at home in poverty should have clued us in. #auspol #MVAW #MVAC

Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department

So it is clear, if you break the law you will be prosecuted. If Alcoa breaks the law, they can jus continue doing so for profit
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DJ more, channel Zohran and get a sleep doctor: Adam Bandt on life after politics and saving the planet The former Greens leader’s appointment as CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation raised eyebrows – but for him, the mission remains the same

Welcome Adam, good luck and good judgement required

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The knots @albomp.bsky.social ties himself in to defend the indefensible allegiance to genocidal Israel will have us all mandatorily wearing kippahs next

Well, he is ready to join NSW ALP, think he's gunna run?
Buy onion shares!

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

Things are going great
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Here we are
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